"Non-violent resistance to an unjust arrest causes public outrage and may even prompt public reform. The UCPD, SCPD, BPD combined attack on freedom of assembly the night of April 18th at the base of the UCSC campus was such an arrest."

Was it indeed? Is that what the courts have decided? Is it what the community believes, or what you believe?

"A significant part of that will be the willingness of the community to challenge oppressive police power where it next raises its head and to resist the immobilizing chill of police violence."

How willing is the community? I don't think we've established that yet.